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A&E Welcomes Phil Robertson Back to 'Duck Dynasty'
Hollywood Reporter ^ | December 27, 2013

Posted on 12/27/2013 2:19:13 PM PST by ConservativeInPA

Phil Robertson, the patriarch of A&E's Duck Dynasty clan who was suspended from his hit reality series on Dec. 18 following some incendiary comments about gay people, won't be put on hiatus after all.

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aande; duckdynasty; duckdynastyback; hollywood; homosexualagenda; liberalmedia; nevermind; philthepatriarch
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Yes, there is a ratings bonanza, but what else? Christians won a skirmish or two....can’t believe that ultimately that is a win for Satin and his Hollyweird minions.


181 posted on 12/28/2013 5:02:51 AM PST by tioga (Wise men still seek Him.)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

GLAAD still pulls their strings. Most of us are just too stupid to realize this.


182 posted on 12/28/2013 6:02:08 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: dforest

My point is all of these announcements are one sided

Have we heard any statement except the one where he says he stands by what he said


183 posted on 12/28/2013 6:29:26 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: itssme

just to clarify: the woman who brought suit against Paula Dean was a white woman. Her last name was Jackson, and I think that threw a lot of people off. Nevertheless, it was a hit job, anyway.


184 posted on 12/28/2013 6:31:02 AM PST by jimjohn
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To: NKP_Vet

Bingo!


185 posted on 12/28/2013 6:31:45 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: gitmo

“As a global media content company, A+E Networks’ core values are centered around creativity, inclusion and mutual respect.”

And that’s why A&E has been trying to make them stop praying and saying, “Jesus”, from the git-go (but they refused). So A&E’s alleged “values” of “inclusion and mutual respect” is a bunch of hogwash. How stupid do they think we are, anyhow?

In any case, glad that GLAAD has been dissed. Each time the majority of Americans take a stand as they did here, the LBGT community gets knocked down a peg or two. I’ll be happy when they are powerless.


186 posted on 12/28/2013 6:39:04 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it's free." P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: MacNaughton

Thanks. It’s too bad the leadership didn’t fight back.


187 posted on 12/28/2013 7:35:09 AM PST by heye2monn
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To: GeronL

. He said he preferred women and didn’t understand the other choice


Exactly. And A&E is bitching about tolerance. This is not a tolerance issue. It’s an issue of hypocrisy. If a gay actor on a TV show was interviewed in The Advocate, and giggled about how he doesn’t get vaginas, he’s just not into them, NO ONE WOULD FIRE HIM. NO ONE WOULD CALL HIM INTOLERANT.

There is only one allowed opinion in lib media, and that is the intolerant part. Robertson said he loved everyone as a child of Gd.


188 posted on 12/28/2013 7:38:32 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: FreeReign

Phil Robertson can win a principled PR battle with the left while folks like Boehner and McConnell are afraid to say boo!


How do we get congressional representation? There are few representing me in congress. Conservative people with gonads intact are un represented.


189 posted on 12/28/2013 7:42:55 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: dforest

The truth is that Americans have always been tolerant of homos. Rarely did anyone go out and find a homo to pick on or hurt.


Not actually true. When I was in high school a gay guy would be beat up in the locker room with the coaches looking on approvingly. I worked in a hotel where the head chef, an older guy, was once beaten black and blue on Santa Monica boulevard near a gay bar.


190 posted on 12/28/2013 7:50:28 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: ConservativeInPA

HMMM. Why is it that nobody gets up in arms when a bearded terrorist quotes from the Koran?
191 posted on 12/28/2013 8:13:43 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: HarleyLady27
If we can bring A&E to their knees with the Ducks, why can’t we do this with Obamacare, forcing Obama to retire ...

Because salt-of-the-earth Americans erroneously rely on the GOP party machine when it comes to the government; the GOP machine can only produce Mccains and Romneys. Before America can be rebuilt, the Republican party must be rebuilt.

192 posted on 12/28/2013 8:57:17 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Yeah. I hope this doesn’t turn out to be a “Drink Your Ovaltine” thing.


193 posted on 12/28/2013 9:15:13 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: CatOwner
Would love for the Robertsons to flip the bird at A&E, but tough to do with a signed contract.

I hope next year the Robertson decline to renew the contract and go with GBTV or something similar.
194 posted on 12/28/2013 9:32:32 AM PST by yorkiemom
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To: ConservativeInPA

The power of the wallet is a power indeed...


195 posted on 12/28/2013 10:23:06 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: sport

What? Yeah, that’s my question. Did Ol’Phil call somebody gay or queer or homo or what? I didn’t see that he actually called anybody anything. So where was the “offensive.”?


196 posted on 12/28/2013 10:25:17 AM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I don’t doubt Phil’s sincerity, but I do believe this whole thing was relished on both sides for what it would do to the bottom line.


197 posted on 12/28/2013 10:27:01 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: ConservativeInPA

he and his family have publicly stated they regret the “coarse language” he used ....

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They caved...


198 posted on 12/28/2013 10:44:04 AM PST by dragnet2
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To: ConservativeInPA

Phil should have had somebody with him at the interview from A&E. Absent that, the network should have kept its comments between them and Phil.

A&E did what they did because some small number of people (it could have been as low as 1) might have been offended by what Phil had to say. What they did was wrong because Phil had the right to express his opinion (1st Amendment Right) and whether they agree or not, they should have kept it to themselves. This was all a veiled publicity campaign that went off the rails quickly because of the way A&E objected to Phil’s comments. I hope that the Robertson family runs out the contract they have with A&E and goes to another network as quickly as possible.


199 posted on 12/28/2013 10:46:28 AM PST by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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To: tioga

I agree that Phil and Paula cases are two different situations entirely. And I agree, we Christians stand up for our Christian faith.

Paula was expressing herself, which she has the freedom to do in this country, until leftists decide to attempt to pick and choose who will have this freedom, and who won’t. Her liberal leanings didn’t help her one bit, and I read somewhere that her popularity at Food Network had diminished somewhat, and I think they wanted to dump her. I like Paula and her family values, and I hope she finds a niche somewhere else. I’m happy for both Phil and Paula, and may they both prosper.


200 posted on 12/28/2013 1:02:46 PM PST by itssme
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